GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-007526
Sermon TitleSermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 (descriptive title)
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Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)Farewell
Bible TextsEcclesiastes 12:1 - 12: 1
Associated SermonsDocto[r] Dunne's Se[r]mon farewell the Lo. of Bridgwaters sermo[n] [Harley MS 364]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 [Harley MS 6356]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.Sermon on Ecclesiastes 12:1 [MS 5767]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.
Preachings1619-04-18 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Farewell; Only the year is given in the manuscript, but the date is identified as April 18 in the printed versions.
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesFive printings: 1) "Mans Timely Remembring of His Creator; or an Exposition Delivered in a Sermon upon Eccles. 12. 1.," in William Milbourne, Sapientia Clamitans, Wisdome Crying Out to Sinners to Returne from Their Evill Wayes (London, 1638), pp. 253-319 (pirated copy; Donne is not named); 2) "Sermon XIX: A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincolns-Inne, April 18. 1619," in XXVI Sermons Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London (London, 1660/1), pp. 269-281; 3) Evelyn Mary Simpson, ed., Donne's Sermon of Valediction at His Going into Germany Preached at Lincoln's Inn April 18, 1619, Printed from the Original in the Lothian and Ashmole Manuscripts and from XXVI Sermons (London: Nonesuch, 1932); 4) "Number 11: A Sermon of Valediction at My Going into Germany, at Lincolns-Inne, April 18. 1619," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. II (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955), pp. 235-249; 5) "A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln’s Inn," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Vol. IV, ed. Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
DescriptionIdentified at the beginning as "Do Donns Farewell Sermon preach'd at Lincolnes Inne when he went to the K: of Bohemie 1619."
Source of DataJeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. I (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), p. 35
Other NoteOther manuscript copies appear in the Dowden, Lothian, Dobell, and Ashmole manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson, Vol. I, p. 35), in addition to British Library, Harley MS 6356, which was discovered by Jeanne Shami.
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-iv10-eccles-121-1#tab-419686 | Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Emma Rhatigan. |
GEMMS record createdApril 13, 2017
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2021